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In Absentia (S)

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Original title: In Absentia
Year: 2000
Running time: 20 min.
Country: United Kingdom
Director: Timothy Quay, Stephen Quay
Screenwriter: Timothy Quay, Stephen Quay
Cast: Animation, Marlene Kaminsky
Music: Karlheinz Stockhausen
Cinematography: Animation, Stephen Quay, Timothy Quay
Producer: BBC, Pipeline Films, Koninck Studios
Genre: Animation | Surrealism. Short Film (Animated)
Synopsis: A woman sits alone on a chair at a table in a room on one of the top floors of an asylum. Bright spot lights dot the night, sometimes shining on her window. She sharpens pencils and writes on a page in a copy book. The pencil point often breaks under her fingers' force. She places broken points outside the window on the sill. A satanic figure is somewhere nearby, animated but of straw or clay, not flesh. She finishes her writing, tears the paper from the pad, folds it, places it in an envelope, and slips it through a slot. Is she writing to her husband? "Sweetheart, come."

Rankings Position

#134 Best Animated Short Movies of the 2000s

Awards: 2000: Sitges - Catalonian International Film Festival: Best Short Film

2000: Cracow Film Festival: Special Mention

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In Absentia (S)

2000

Timothy Quay, Stephen Quay

6.2

(156)